Turkey planned to transform its repressed financial structure into a market-based system by implementing the structural adjustment and liberalization program starting at the beginning of 1980. Prior to 1980 structural adjustment and liberalization program, direct control methods…
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The purpose of this study was to investigate and describe Turkish teachers' self reported perceptions regarding textbook adaptation strategies. Another purpose of this study was to determine the match between the textbook and the students' reading levels. In order to determine t…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the rise of higher learning overall, and specifically the development of Turkish higher education. The study provides an analysis of the birth of the Turkish higher education institutions and the Madrasa as a Turkish-Islamic instituti…
This dissertation examines the semantic analyses of the Korean locative particles -ey and -eyse and the Turkish locative particles -(y )A,- d A, - d An . Specifically, this study proposes a cognitive network model of the locative expressions in Korean and Turkish based on the st…
This study examined whether the Turkish high school social sciences major students would feel adequate and fit in a technology-enhanced educational environment, particularly in history classrooms. To this extent, this study investigated high school students' level of proficiency…
The purpose of this dissertation is to define the syntactic structure of Old Anatolian Turkish. For a complete syntactic study, I analyze three fourteenth-century Turkish prose works: al-Manzuma fi-l-Hilafiyyat, a law book, translated from Arabic; Qab usname, an advice book, tra…
Nationalism and nationhood are not authentic outcomes of a static ethnicity but are a contingent product of the nation-state era. Nations, nationality, and nationhood are socially-produced concepts, constantly contested, negotiated, reinforced, or rejected, by contending actors.…
Terrorism is a historical problem; however, it becomes one of the biggest problems in 21st century. September 11 and the following Madrid, Istanbul and London attacks showed that it is the most significant problem threatening world peace and security. Governments have started to…
Based on 12 months of fieldwork in Istanbul and Ankara, my dissertation aims at providing a critical reading of Turkish modernity and its reflection in the health realm through an investigation of the illness narratives of cancer patients. It also explores the interactions betwe…
This dissertation investigates the trajectory of state-sponsored official Turkish national identity, identifying and examining environmental factors that are influential in engendering change in order to highlight how the interplay between state, society, and international force…
The difficulties international graduate students experience in classroom interaction due to language proficiency has been documented. However, most such studies look only at behaviors, such as the number of times a student initiates an interaction or asks a question, which gives…
The present study aims to elucidate the determinant factors that affect environmental attitudes (EA) of senior high school students in Turkey and the origins of these EAs. Over nine hundred students from different school types, neighborhoods, geographical regions, social-economi…
The current study examines the reconstruction of Turkish social studies/history curriculum and assesses how well the program conforms to the established EU directions and norms. The purpose of this study is to reconcile the issues of Turkish accession, the implementation of Euro…
This study comprises a series of thematically-linked essays on the social history of popular music in Turkey. They are interrelated by an overarching concern with the intersection of the experience of popular music (for its practitioners and its audience) with the more 'invisibl…
This study compared the impact of mastectomy versus breast-conserving treatment (BCT) on body image in Turkish breast cancer patients. Mastectomy and BCT groups were compared on a structured interview--Body Image in Breast Cancer Patients-Turkish Version (BIBCP-T)--that investig…
This dissertation examines the life and work of Gülten Akin (b.1933) as a pioneering woman poet of contemporary Turkish literature. Akin is a highly original poet with a distinct voice, which is clearly that of a woman. Over the past fifty years, she has continuously presented t…
This study investigates the networking behavior of innovative firms in two regions in Turkey: Ankara and Istanbul. Specifically, it compares the geographical extent and characteristics of innovation networks between the two regions when firms carry out innovation, i.e. developin…
This qualitative study aimed to discover the mental health needs of working-class Turkish immigrants in the United States and to determine current sources of support as well as factors that restrict their access to currently available services. Thirteen Turkish immigrants and 3 …
Although terrorism is a significant social and political phenomenon, research on terrorism lacks methodological and empirical sophistication. Challenges in the availability of data and collection issues result in information gaps on terrorism related topics. This study focuses o…